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MUMBAI: Music channel PTC Punjabi has announced the second edition of the PTC Punjabi Music Awards 2010. The awards recognise the the best of the year's Punjabi Music - the singers, the music composers, the choreographers. The award ceremony which took place in Jalandhar, Punjab last year is likely to be held in March this year. "The venue and the final dates are yet to be zeroed on," says PTC Network head sales and marketing Anubhav Nath.
read moreMUMBAI: Channel [V], the youth channel from the Star India stable, has appointed JWT India to handle its creative duties. With this win, JWT now has four channels from the Star Network in its kitty. The others channels are Star World, Star Movies and Star One. Earlier in August 2009, Channel [V] had appointed Lowe Lintas to give it a brand facelift, thereby, helping it don its new bloody cool... positioning. The relaunch was aimed at moving over to more of non-music content in the form of new shows that the channel had launched.
read moreMUMBAI: MTV India, the youth channel from the Viacom18 stable, has launched a new online property with Samsung Mobile as the title sponsor. Christened Samsung Mobile MTV Gang Next, the property will be a mix of online and television featuring a selection of gangs from various colleges and giving them tasks to perform.
read moreBANGALORE: Reliance Retail Limited's books, music, stationery, toys and gifts format store Reliance Timeout in association with Penguin Books will hold a book reading of A R Rahman's unofficial biography – A. R. Rahaman: The Musical Storm, by author Kamini Mathai in Bangalore this Friday, January 15, 2009. The event will be held at the Reliance Timeout outlet in Bangalore at 6.30 pm.
read moreNEW DELHI: India and Bangladesh on Wednesday agreed to exchange programmes through their respective radio and TV organisations and will provide facilities for visiting radio and TV persons in each other's country associated with the development of broadcasting/telecasting.
read moreMUMBAI: Tie-ups with international labels and retailers seems to be focus for the Bennett Coleman group backed Times Music this year. Times Music has entered into an agreement with Malaysia based Agi Music for licensing its content over the digital and mobile space. Says Times Music COO Adarsh Gupta, The majority of population in Malaysia are south Indians so, we want to pump our Tamil, spiritual and classical music catalogue. Apart from that, we would also be plugging our Bollywood content and other catalogues through this deal....
read moreMUMBAI: Universal Music Group has sued music US based website Grooveshark for infringing on copyrights covering songs that were recorded before 1972 which includes artistes like Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Cat Stevens, the Jackson Five and the Who.
read moreMUMBAI: Warner Music has tied up with eMusic to allow the online music club to sell titles by WMG's renowned roster of artists directly from its website. "As a leader in the music industry's transition to a predominantly digital music business, we have worked hard to encourage and support innovative partners and creative business models that offer our artists unique ways to reach their fans,... says WMG senior vice president of digital strategy and business development Stephen Bryan. "We are pleased to be making our music available to eMusic's passionate membership....
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MUMBAI: According to recent reports, A R Rahman has been asked to compose a song on the lines of Vande Mataram for the for the World Classical Tamil Conference to be held in June 2010. Tamil Nadu CM Karunanidhi has shown interest in the idea of bringing in the ace composer. The track will also have a video directed by Shankar (of Robot fame). The song will be unveiled at the time of the event.
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MUMBAI: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, and sons Amaan and Ayaan Ali recently released the album 'The Music Room' under Saregama India Ltd. What makes the album differnt from their earlier album's is the fact that it features Ustad Amjad Ali Khan playing individually with his sons
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MUMBAI: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) appointed Javad Mottaghi as the next ABU Secretary-General. Mottaghi is currently Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD). He succeeds David Astley, who has been Secretary-General since July 2002. Mr Astley is leaving the ABU at the end of June but Mottaghi's starting date is yet to be announced.
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MUMBAI: Anara Publishing continues to make waves in the Indian music scene, building on their iniread more
MUMBAI: Google is gearing up to introduce a Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) extension for Youread more
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) delivered impressive first-quarter earnings that surpassed exread more
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group and TikTok have announced a new licensing agreement, marking the enread more
MUMBAI: Vianet Media, founded by Mr.read more
MUMBAI: Stand Atlantic takes a mellower turn with a new heartfelt alt-pop love song titled "LOVE U ANYWAY", in which the accompanying music video...read more
MUMBAI: Heftyverse, an innovative Metaverse initiative by Hungama Digital Media, joins hands with Bhamla Foundation to introduce Ecotainment, a...read more
MUMBAI: The indie music scene is about to witness an electrifying collaboration as the versatile Veena Bhatia joins forces with the renowned lyricist...read more
MUMBAI: India International Centre hosted an evening of spoken words and live music by acclaimed interdisciplinary artist and actor Sujoy Prasad...read more
MUMBAI: One of the most anticipated releases of the month, ‘Mr. & Mrs. Mahi’ is a partnership of love and dreams starring Rajkummar Rao alongside...read more
